The Daily Mail says Pardew is adamant the club needs to sign two strikers in the summer if they want to get back to the level they were at last season. They lost top-scorer Demba Ba to Chelsea in January but failed to find an adequate replacement.

Pardew is still bitter about missing out on signing Loic Remy, who instead chose tomorrow’s opponents QPR.

He did not rule out activating Remy’s relegation release clause and trying to sign him again.